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Romneys and Clintons Collide, Amiably

By Patrick Healy July 4, 2007 4:08 pmJuly 4, 2007 4:08 pm

The Clintons and the Romneys in Clear Lake, Iowa. (Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa – The popular Fourth of July parade in Clear Lake, Iowa, not only drew thousands of spectators but also two presidential couples – for the Democrats, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and for the Republicans, Mitt and Ann Romney.

Before the start of the parade, the Romneys and their son Josh walked over to say hello to the Clintons, with the former Massachusetts governor introducing his wife and son. Mr. Romney chatted up Mr. Clinton first, asking how many times the former president had done a Fourth of July parade.

“Once or twice,” Mr. Clinton said.

Mrs. Clinton then popped up and gave Mr. Romney a “nice to see you!”

They chatted amiably about Josh Romney’s tour around Iowa’s 99 counties in a Winnebago that had the words “Mitt Mobile” painted on the side. Mrs. Clinton noted that Mr. Romney was lucky to have Josh and his four other sons working on the campaign – to which Mr. Romney suggested that, if he had better foresight, he and Ann would have had more children.

Mr. Romney then said that they would all see more of each other – to which Mrs. Clinton readily agreed.
Josh Romney said afterward that his parents enjoyed the chat with the Clintons and were looking forward to the political debate ahead.

yes the nation is in trouble with s congress that can only steal and talk for ever and not the dollar is trash a note they say! do you want any of my notes this is one, how much Gold can you get with it? i guess while china is building rail roads we will be makeing more trucks to destroy the rest of yhe country as the N,A. F. T. is a joke so will be congress and their forever War, i suppose we have many on the D.M.Z. as there was in
1953 still there but now their called the N.G. and supposed to be here for the nation how stupid can we get? mexico visit europe but not the U.S.A
will go see the esponsa in coah soon with my pass port, at least I fimally got one…Wow! finally..

people running for office have a big fear of running into each other, i suppose it’s because they are all going around making promises they well know they cannot keep, or ssaying something their opponent will use to stab them in the back. there should be a law that states we should only have to listen to the baloney for so long, like the UK.

The real issue going on is not the amiable chat between the Clintons and Romney’s. The real collision is going on between Republican contenders Romney and Brownback.

Senator Brownback and Romney are both vying for Christian support from the Republicans. On the surface Brownback may appear to be the logical choice exemplifying Christian values over Brownback.
Brownback continually bombards the hearts and minds of his supporters with pro life and pro marriage anecdotes.
The amateur Brownback camp continually criticizes Romney for allowing gay marriages in Massachusetts but the truth reveals that was in reality mandated by the courts.
But Brownback may not be as Christian conservative as he may appear.

The gullible Brownback fell for the smear campaign of some radical left leaning women’s groups who manipulated Brownback with shocking lies and hysterical anecdotes in order to get him to sponsor the draconian International Marriage Relations Act.
Brownback sponsored this unconstitutional law with the ultra liberal Senator Cantwell (D-WA) which allows the government to interfere with the universal right of an American to COMMUNICATE with a foreigner and also shockingly requires background checks before they can marry within the USA.
Remember it was Senator Brownback (not Mitt Romney) who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and then broke his promise by sponsoring this draconian law.
If you look into the issues closely you will likely discover that Romney exemplifies Christian values more than Brownback

R.L. Jackson, poster #1 you are just mad at Hillary. The Clintons are on their way back to the White House and all the right wingers and the haters will need big forks to eat all the hate lies and demagoguery that has flown from their chops since the biginning of the Clinton’s careers. Some people just can’t stop hating but most of us who love America and have common sense and compassion know that Hillary is the right choice for America. She wants change and she is ready to lead.

If Romney is classy, it must be because he’s such a good liar. If the Clinton’t are tacky, it must be because Mr. Clinton and Mr. Rubin kept the country out of debt. Poverty is classy, as is poor mental health (see Romney in MA when he wanted to deprive chiuldren of access to health care institutions). It’s tacky to want a new and better health system and fail. But is it classy to live in Belmont, MA and believe that health care, despite what MA has done, is for the wealthy. It’s clssy to spout Far Right blather and tacky to believe in the people. It must be classy to go to Brigham Young but tacky to go to Wellesley and Cambridge University as a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School. Of course, Romney is classy. He took the state of MA for a ride. Of course, the Clinton’s are tacky because they lived in Arkansas and kept the United States in realtive peace and did not kill harmless civilians and our soldiers unneccessarily and by lies.

Dave Root strikes again. Combing the internet to tell the world of how Romney exemplifies Christian Values more than Sam Brownback. In their race for more Christian-ness, former congressmen Mark Foley and Newt Gingrich are following close behind….. but wait….. here comes Fred in his big red truck and runs all over them. Well, so much for that one.

All I can think about is how charming Romney was to gay people when he was running for office in Massachusetts — promising to be the best friend they ever had, better than Kennedy. All I see now is Romney kicking gay people in the teeth and dissing the state that elected him its governor. All over Iowa and everyplace he campaigns now, you’d think he became governor of Massacusetts because the state is so awful and he wanted to punish it. If that man smiled at me and shook my hand, I’d check for my wallet afterwards.

Allow me amply on Dave Root’s interesting comment about Brownback’s tepid support among conservatives. I frequently appear at Iowa GOP county committee meeting open to the faithful to speak alongside his operatives.

While I do not doubt his anti-abortion bona fides, anti-abortion activists are looking for solutions not rhetoric. Very opposed to Roe v Wade I surprised his operatives at a county meeting the first time I said we could reduce the abortion rate up to 90% were young pregnant couples in love to have the financial means to marry, as was the case when I was young.

The way to do that is to crack down on illegal immigration which undermines the buying power of entry level blue collar work and drives up rents.

His people never picked up on my ideas because in my opinion Brownback is dependent on contributions from businesses relying on cheap illegal labor.

Whether I’m right or wrong, his folks get very lukewarm responses at county meeting in Iowa Republican stronghold areas.

With all the hatred and personal attacks spewing from rush limbaugh and ann coulter and their ilk — it’s refreshing to see some of our leaders and potential leaders acting like civil human beings. Good for the Clintons and the Romneys.

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